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here are Swanseas matchday prices.

Category A games are priced at £45 adult and £22.50 concessions. They include the fixtures against Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs.

Category B games will remain priced at £35 adult and £17.50 concessions.

 

How about you work out averages ...

 

The description of my table just isn't clear I don't think. The prices in the 3rd column aren't the matchday costs, they're how much it works out at per game if you buy a season ticket. So while it'd cost you more to buy a one off ticket, a season ticket at Swansea works out at £23.63 per game. The only one which shows an actual match day price is the lower Barnsley one of £23. If that makes any sense to you?

 

but look at the table he has Barnsley average on there and swanseas then hes trying to compare our matchday price to teams season ticket average price.

which isnt correct

 

Thamkyou

 

Why though? The higher priced tickets are a choice. Saying that a certain club is too expensive for the common man because they have an expensive option as well as a cheap option doesn't seem right to me. It is a bit like saying that tesco is too expensive to shop in because their soup costs on average something like £1.10 a tin when you're forgetting that they actually start selling tins at 24p and it's only the finest moroccon chicken soup at £2.35 pulling the price up.

 

I think in the next season or two all this will come to a head the fans will eventually stop paying the prices and grounds will become emptier.

 

Why are you still talking ***** picking holes in the article. Well done you proved that the numbers aren't factually spot on. Now that the font of all knowledge (thats you) has enlightened the whole BBS hows about you stop flogging it to death and just accept that its outrageously priced. Whether or not the gunners cheapest ticket is £1500 or just under a grand i dont actually care as it still shows its crazy money for your average fan.

 

It shows that for fans of half of the clubs in the premier league you can, if you buy a season ticket, get in for less than it costs to pay on the day at Barnsley near the bottom of the championship.

Some of the premier league is ridiculously expensive, others are ridiculously cheap and a hell of a lot is pretty much average and nowt anyone can complain at unless they also say that Barnsley are robbing it's supporters blind. And I don't think they are by the way.

 

But your arguments flawed.

 

Which part?

 

due tothe fact your compairing a match day ticket to an average price from a season ticket sale. you have to compare theres to ours.Ours is 14.35 i think you said

thats all you can compare to not a match day price

 

Im sure if you took the championship average cheapest season ticket and combined it with the average most expensive ticket for every club.

Then did the same for the premiership you'd find a large difference in prices. Which you probably know, but instead your trying to be as misleading as the article it would appear.

If you actually took the average price for every seat in the ground as im sure the cheapest tickets are limited at many premier league clubs the contrast would be even wider between the two divisions.

The Wigans of this world are most definitely the outlier due to their history and the history of the area.

Regardless the cost of football is out of proportion which is what the article was originally trying to portray which id guess you grasped either way.

 

Where am I trying to be misleading by stating quite clearly that the CHEAPEST season tickets at all clubs are xxx? I think that's about as clear and simple as you can possibly get to be honest.

I don't disagree with you that the cheapest tickets may be limited. I'll look into that now if you want. I'm merely saying that for those on a budget the cheapest you can buy a ticket for is xxx. I fail to see what is so disgusting about doing that. People on budget's don't tend to go for the most expensive seats, this is why NO figures out there will ever include exec box prices as part of the average.

The article was trying to make out like the premiership is disgustingly over priced and was making up numbers to prove that fact. I was saying that in actual fact for those on a budget half of the premier league clubs are no more expensive than it costs to pay per game at oakwell. In other words I was trying to say that the premier league are not the devil while the championship is made up of angels.

 

Erm the table does compare our season ticket average

 

yes it does

so what has the price of our matchday ticket got to do with it

 

Well I thought I'd explained that a couple of times. It was just put in there as a reference point on the table, nothing else.

 

"The article was trying to make out like the premiership is disgustingly over priced and was making up numbers to prove that fact. I was saying that in actual fact for those on a budget half of the premier league clubs are no more expensive than it costs to pay per game at oakwell. In other words I was trying to say that the premier league are not the devil while the championship is made up of angels."

Yeah but the half is if you buy a season ticket to make it cheaper rather than a matchday ticket comparison which would make it more expensive. You only had three clubs whos averages were less.

I have no idea about season ticket limitations on the cheapest, its pure speculation but im sure im not far off. If you would take it a step further you can also get a kids ticket free with season tickets which im sure most of the premier league clubs dont have, again im just guessing.

Also you dont get to cherry pick your club, mores the pity. Some muppets do but the majority of football is tribal, if your the average bloke who ends up supporting a team in the top end of the pricing i guess its just tough luck. The underlying point i got from the article was football is overpriced and the problem starts at the top. I know you understand this so im guessing you just fancied a pop at the mirror, strange.

Also ( im a fan of that word ) im still waiting for the west yorkshire youth master to answer about his cash rich statement. What a joke. Im sure he wouldnt be too happy if he was in low paid work and a fan of arsenal unable to get to games or worse on the rock and roll struggling to get pay seeing obscene ticket prices but being judged as cash rich for being from north london.

 

I think HT has just misunderstood London a bit and he knows that Londoner earn more so assume they have more cash while forgetting that they also have more expenses so their disposable cash isn't a great deal higher. Slightly yes but not greatly. I'd say that london clubs should charge a BIT more because they have higher costs but not ridiculously more.

And I guess that yes I did fancy a pop at the mirror because I didn't like their false reporting. I wouldn't mind them using average prices, cheapest, most expensive or even the price it costs to have the clubs top scorers girlfriend pop round and give you a bit of oral pleasure. I just wasn't so keen on them making the numbers up completely because for the first few clubs I looked at I simply couldn't get to their figures no matter which way I tried to do the maths or which tickets I included and ignored etc.

 

Yet you've still missed tht fact it was virgin that provided the published data